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find + printf help
Post 302468458 by Scrutinizer on Tuesday 2nd of November 2010 07:27:20 PM
11-02-2010
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If you do a man find, you'll notice that in order to print you need to use %p and terminate with a newline. printf is a GNU find only extension. You can accomplish the same thing with -exec , which will work with any find command. Hold on .. this should be in the homework forum 
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